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Favourites

Italian favourites

Here, in one tidy place, you'll find some of the most loved Italian recipes, including rustic salads, classic mains, pizzas, pasta and risottos. Bella, bella.

Desserts

The best Italian desserts

Pannacotta to panettone, tiramisu to torta di riso, you can taste the love in Italian puds. These recipes prove they're not all laden with calories or time-consuming to make either.

Dinner party ideas

Italian dinner party menus

Italian recipes are loved by all so an Italian dinner party is always a winner. We have four Italian dinner party menus for you to peruse, including vegetarian dishes to suit all palates.

Angela's dishes

Angela Hartnett dinner party menus

Michelin-starred chef and Gordon Ramsay’s protégée, Angela Hartnett creates recipes that are hugely popular at delicious. Her Italian-inspired fare is perfect for a get-together.

Low cal

Top 10 low-cal Italian recipes

Low calorie Italian recipes? Can you believe your eyes? Italian food can be as light as a summer morning, as these recipes prove. Buon appetito!

Light pasta dishes

Healthy eating

Light pasta dishes

We have low fat and low cal pasta dishes to share so you don't have to feel guilty about indulging in the world's favourite Italian staple.

Hungry Traveller

Venice

Michelin-starred chef Angela Hartnett was an impressionable teen when she first fell for the beauty, mystery and flavours of the world’s most romantic city.

Angela Hartnett dinner party menus

Tuscany

In 2007, a single white truffle found near Pisa made the headlines when the 1.5 kilo treasure was auctioned off for a whopping £165,000. These warty fungi (most definitely not of the chocolate variety) really are worth their weight in gold.

Hungry Traveller

The Amalfi Coast, Italy

Gennaro Contaldo, chef at Passione in London and mentor to Jamie Oliver, takes us on a tour of his home town of Minori and its neighbours along the rugged and ravishing Amalfi coast.

Wine

Wines to go with pasta

Italians would rarely contemplate a plate of pasta without a glass of wine. So which bottles should you have at the ready? Here are some of the best duets, says Susy Atkins.

How to

Make pasta the Giorgio Locatelli way

"When you make fresh egg pasta at home, you have the satisfaction of knowing all the ingredients that went into it.”

Produce

delicious. loves Italian essentials

The Italians make an art of using great ingredients simply. So, start with our pick of the best Italian staples from the supermarket, and you can’t go wrong.

Food producers

Delis

Italian delis in the UK

A typical Italian meal begins with antipasti and includes cured meats, olives, cheeses – great for sharing. The key to a perfect antipasti is good-quality ingredients (see Jacob Kenedy’s guide to putting together antipasto misto). Here’s our pick of delis selling authentic Italian delicacies in the UK.

Kitchenware

Italian kitchenware essentials

We love Italian culinary prowess: where would we be without the espresso maker? The pasta steamer? The ravioli mould (pictured)? And, er, the truffle slicer...

Restaurants

The best Italian restaurants

We could only pick a handful of Italian restaurants in the UK. From family-run trattorias to Michelin starred establishments, these are the perfect places to let your pasta and pannacotta passions run riot.

Ice creamer maker

Food for thought: Gino Soldan, ice cream maker

Gino from Morelli's talks Italian – flavours, that is – and how the gelato emporium grew from a bicycle to a Harrods' parlour.

Classes

Italian cookery classes

Learn to make authentic Italian food like mama makes (if she's Italian). Here are just a few of the great Italian classes around the country that we recommend you try to perfect your pasta and your get your tiramisu tip top.

Pasta class

Drinks

All About Amaretto

Amaretto is Italy's best-selling liqueur and rightly so, we say. And it's best served with fairy lights around the glass...

St-Emilion au chocolat torte

Hungry Traveller

Two days in Turin

The capital of Italy's Piedmont region is the birthplace of the Slow Food movement. “It’s a city where the pleasure’s in eating and drinking,” says local Antonio Carluccio, who gives Tina Walsh a guided tour.

Drinks

All about Limoncello

Limoncello isn't just a shot drunken revellers knock back post-midnight when the wine and vodka has run out, it's a gorgeous lemon-infused libation which goes well in long drinks, cocktails, and with – or in – puds.

All About Grappa

A light bite

Magic of the Mediterranean

There’s a reason the Mediterranean’s are so healthy. Try these light and healthy Mediterranean recipes and feel as fit as an Italian stallion.

Hungry Traveller

Florence

Look beyond the artistic masterpieces and discover the gastronomic delights of Florence, Tuscany’s capital, with this insider’s guide to the best places to eat, drink and shop for Italian delicacies.

Hampers

Venice

Blog: Viva Venice

One of our favourite bloggers heads to Venice (with a Contessa, no less) for a gastronomic adventure and finds, in this saturated Italian city, that whetting your appetite means sometimes getting your feet wet.

Drinks